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Sue Foley

Change is Sue Foley’s ninth recording and her first for Justin Time Records. It is a warm, intimate, acoustic CD produced by Sue Foley and mixed by Richard Chycki (Aerosmith, Mick Jagger, Def Leppard, Seal, Shawn Colvin, Pink). Sue is a well respected, multiple award winning artist who is the recipient of a Canadian Juno Award, a record setting fourteen Maple Blues Awards, three Trophee France Blues Awards (International Female Guitarist of the Year), and she was also a 2003 WC Handy award nominee.
In addition to her own headline club, theatre and festival dates, she has opened for and toured with the late John Lee Hooker, BB King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker, Tom Petty, The Neville Brothers, Jonny Lang and many more during her career. She enjoys playing live and will be touring extensively throughout Europe and North America to support this new release.
In addition to her recording and touring, Sue is also an accomplished, award winning songwriter. Her music has been featured in the major motion picture “You Can Count On Me” and she also contributed the theme song (“Two Trains”) for the internationally syndicated television series “Just Cause”.
She wrote five of the songs on Change, including the beautiful and moving title track. The CD begins with “Goin’ Down the Road Again”, a song Sue was inspired to write after she met Etta Baker, a 90 year old guitar player from North Carolina who plays in the delicate, melodic finger picking, Piedmont style. The disc continues with “Hardworking Woman”, Sue’s version of an obscure Mississippi Matilda song that is a long standing favourite of hers.
Another Foley original is the tongue in cheek “Doggie Treats”, a classic boogie style blues song that rocks along just right! Also featured on the CD is the timeless “Careless Love” and Bessie Smith’s “Sugar in My Bowl”. Sue has also included two songs by one of her musical heroes, Memphis Minnie; “Bad Luck Woman” and “Me And My Chauffeur”. Sue also tips her hat to the legendary Jimmy Reed with the warm and wonderful “You Don’t Have To Go”, and to the late George Harrison with a touching rendition of his lovely “Here Comes The Sun”. The album closes with another rocking original “Shake That Thing”, a fun song about having a good time and letting loose.
Sue has been featured numerous times in major print publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Globe & Mail and in Downbeat and Mojo magazines. She will be the featured musical artist in Chrysler/Jeep Europe’s summer 2004 magazine “Freedom” which will be published in six languages with a circulation in excess of 300,000. She is a favourite on syndicated radio shows both in North America and internationally having appeared in concert on The House of Blues, Mountain Stage, Saturday Night Blues and Beale Street Caravan programs. She has also had numerous national television appearances in her native Canada. A video for the title track Change will be available and will be serviced to press and media outlets.
She is on the advisory board for the not for profit Music Maker Relief Foundation (along with Bonnie Raitt, BB King and Taj Mahal) and she is committed to music education and to charitable causes. She has also actively participated in the Blues In The Schools Program in her hometown of Ottawa.
“I think my new album Change represents change and renewal for me. As it is my first live CD as well as my first all acoustic CD, that alone is a change. A lot of the songs I have played for years but I have never recorded them. They were things that I played for fun alone around the house and I think that gives the CD a really intimate vibe. I don’t think I’ve ever shown this side of myself on record before and because it was recorded live in one night, the album has a raw quality and a vibrancy that could only be created in the moment with the help of a great audience.”
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Discography

New Used Car

CD / 2006

Change

CD / 2004

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